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⏲ Duration: 59 min 32 sec ✓ Published: 04-Dec-2012
Description: Dan Sheffield, a visiting lecturer at Princeton University will deliver this lecture as part of the Adult Lecture Series at the Darbe Mehr.nnThe Quest for the Historical Zarathustra: Parsis and Philologists on the Prophet in 19th century BombaynnIn 1854, a German philologist named Martin Haug discovered that the Gāthās, a small section of the Zoroastrian scriptures, were composed in an older language than the rest of the Avesta. Haug became the first to attribute the authorship of the Gāthās
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